Is it true that Ajnabi was the Perisian term for “Foreigner”?

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The above statement is true.
The terms used today by historians must be used with caution because they once had different meanings. Think about a simple word like "foreigner". Nowadays, it describes a non-Native American. Any stranger who entered a village and was not a part of that society or culture was considered a "foreigner" in the mediaeval era. Such a person was known as an ajnabi in Persian or a pardesi in Hindi. Therefore, a forest dweller might have been regarded as a foreigner by a city dweller, but two peasants living in the same village were not strangers to one another, despite the possibility that they belonged to different castes or religions.

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